Sunday, March 17, 2013
World War G
Does it live in a garden?
Is it really fast?
Does it live on the great plains of Africa?
Hey!!??
What is goin' on?
How do we know they're coming?
They're coming.
You're asking me to leave my family.
Don't pretend you're not well-suited for the job...
There weren't enough bullets to kill all of them...
Tell the kids I'm coming back...
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Thursday, March 14, 2013
World-renowned philosopher Zizek to teach at Seoul's Kyunghee Univ.
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2013/03/11/30/0301000000AEN20130311001000315F.HTML
SEOUL, March 11 (Yonhap) -- Slavoj Zizek, a world-renowned
philosopher and cultural critic, will teach students and conduct research
activities at Seoul's Kyunghee University, school officials said Monday.
The philosopher from Slovenia will become a professor for the School of Global Communication at Kyunghee's College of Foreign Language and Literature on July 1, according to the school's personnel committee.
Zizek will make a one-year contract under the school's Eminent Scholar program where the university invites outstanding researchers to support their research activities while staying abroad, it added.
Visiting South Korea in July, he will meet students through special lectures during the school's international summer school. He then plans to conduct a joint research with Kyunghee's English literature professor Lee Taek-kwang, according to the school.
In September, the social theorist will also meet with the public here via an open lecture about capitalism and ideology, while planning to hold an annual symposium on the communist ideology in South Korea.
"We expect his diverse activities engaging in not only our students and faculty members, but the general public. After all, he is well known not only for his academic achievements but also for his active communication with the people," said a school official. "We are actively reviewing an option to renew his contract."
Zizek, influenced by Jacques Lacan, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx in terms of his critical-intellectual perspective, earned global recognition after his first book in English titled "The Sublime Object of Ideology" published in 1989. As one of the world's most confrontational intellectuals of the time, he now serves as a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a professor at the European Graduate School.
He visited South Korea last June to give a lecture to students, traveled to the demilitarized zone and Imjingak pavilion near the border with North Korea, and met with members of the labor union at the country's smallest carmaker Ssangyong Motor Co. while they were on strike.
The philosopher from Slovenia will become a professor for the School of Global Communication at Kyunghee's College of Foreign Language and Literature on July 1, according to the school's personnel committee.
Zizek will make a one-year contract under the school's Eminent Scholar program where the university invites outstanding researchers to support their research activities while staying abroad, it added.
Visiting South Korea in July, he will meet students through special lectures during the school's international summer school. He then plans to conduct a joint research with Kyunghee's English literature professor Lee Taek-kwang, according to the school.
In September, the social theorist will also meet with the public here via an open lecture about capitalism and ideology, while planning to hold an annual symposium on the communist ideology in South Korea.
"We expect his diverse activities engaging in not only our students and faculty members, but the general public. After all, he is well known not only for his academic achievements but also for his active communication with the people," said a school official. "We are actively reviewing an option to renew his contract."
Zizek, influenced by Jacques Lacan, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx in terms of his critical-intellectual perspective, earned global recognition after his first book in English titled "The Sublime Object of Ideology" published in 1989. As one of the world's most confrontational intellectuals of the time, he now serves as a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a professor at the European Graduate School.
He visited South Korea last June to give a lecture to students, traveled to the demilitarized zone and Imjingak pavilion near the border with North Korea, and met with members of the labor union at the country's smallest carmaker Ssangyong Motor Co. while they were on strike.
the name of a problem
“Communism is today not the name of a solution but the name
of a problem: the problem of the commons in all its dimensions –
the commons of nature as the substance of our life, the problem of our
biogenetic commons, the problem of our cultural commons (‘intellectual property’),
and, last but not least, the problem of the commons as that universal space of
humanity from which no one should be excluded. Whatever the solution might be,
it will have to solve this problem.”
– Žižek, “Why the Idea and Why Communism?”
http://lacan.com/symptom12/?p=186
“And in the Marxian perspective, utopian socialism
consists in the very belief that a society is possible in which the relations
of exchange are universalized and production for the market predominates, but
workers themselves none the less remain proprietors of their means of
production and are therefore not exploited – in short, ‘utopian’ conveys a
belief in the possibility of a universality without its symptom, without
the point of exception functioning as its internal negation.”
– Žižek, The Sublime Object of Ideology, p. 23
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